In July, 2017, employees from the National Butterfly Center—a 100-acre butterfly preserve in South Texas owned and operated by a … More
Category: Antiquities Act
Supreme Court: Look to property rules to solve federal land conflicts
Since 2000, the growth of fracking for natural gas has fueled a pipeline boom to get the gas to market … More
Supreme Court searches for path through byzantine federal land laws
Federal lands are governed by a complex thicket of laws built up over more than a century, often with too … More
Prospecting for conservation: federal mining law encourages environmental conflict rather than free-market negotiation
After President Trump reduced the size of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument, environmentalists feared the lands would be opened up … More
Can a president both shrink a national monument and create a new one?
President Trump’s decision last year to shrink Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument remains controversial and is … More
The Avocado Toast Rebellion: California confronts the feds over federal land policy
Federal lands have long been a source of political conflict. In the 70s and 80s, the Sage Brush Rebellion challenged … More
Worried about President Trump considering potential coal and oil revenue when setting boundaries for national monuments? Reform the Antiquities Act.
President Trump’s decision to reduce the size of two national monuments in Utah—Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante—has been a political … More
President Trump’s long-awaited national monument decision triggers wave of lawsuits
Last week, President Trump issued two long-awaited proclamations reducing the size of two controversial national monuments in Utah. The same … More
Lacking consensus, monument designations breed endless conflict
One major shortcoming of relying on the political process to achieve environmental objectives (or most any other objective) is that … More
Secretary Zinke recommends modifying ten national monuments
After an intense, months-long review of national monuments, Secretary Zinke delivered his report with recommendations to the President on August … More
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